Dependency and directionality / Marcel den Dikken, Eötvös Loránd University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dikken, Marcel den, 1965- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 154.

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 154

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deep structure (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xvi, 387 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies are built is a topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its applications. This book develops an integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality embedded in a syntactic theory that argues for a 'top down' approach, presenting an explicit counterweight to the bottom-up derivations pervading the Chomskian mainstream. It combines a compact and comprehensive historical perspective on structure building, the cycle, and movement, with detailed discussions of island effects, the typology of long-distance filler-gap dependencies, and the special problems posed by the subject in clausal syntax. Providing introductions to the main issues, reviewing extant arguments for bottom-up and top-down approaches, and presenting several case studies in its development of a new theory, this book should be of interest to all students and scholars of language interested in syntactic structures and the dependencies inside them.

Contents:

Introduction

The directionality of structure building

Find the gap

A syntactic typology of long A-dependencies

The trouble with subjects

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107177567

1107177561

OCLC:

1001413920

Publisher Number:

40028446070